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For 7,599 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. Paycheck
    Unfortunately, after watching Paycheck, you may wish you had the picture's gimmickry at your disposal, so you could erase your own memory of it.
  2. Peter Pan
    It's as if the movie itself has been sprinkled with fairy dust, and good thing, too: The world of Peter Pan is, at heart, so troublesome that it might as well also be enchanting.
  3. The Company
    A funny valentine by an old master, woos us into the dance.
  4. The Young Black Stallion
    There are two good things to say about The Young Black Stallion" It's beautifully shot, and it's short.
  5. Cheaper by the Dozen
    Isn't without charm, or laughs. Director Shawn Levy's film features some of the best child actor casting since "The Little Rascals."
  6. Monster
    I don't think it's a great movie -- though Theron's is a near-great performance -- but it's not one you can easily forget.
  7. Mona Lisa Smile
    The men here are negligible, but all the actresses are good -- especially Dunst, who shows a previously unrevealed gift for blending cold conservative roots, starchy appearance, forgiveness and unexpected redemption.
  8. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    Probing... haunting.
  9. Calendar Girls
    It creates a strong sense of a living, breathing community, and you root for its affectionately drawn characters as they experience the giddiness of triumph without forgetting the project's bittersweet inspiration.
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Like all great fantasies and epics, this one leaves you with the sense that its wonders are real, its dreams are palpable.
  11. The Statement
    The Statement is an older man's film, and compassion is one of its strengths; Jewison and Caine make us feel pity and terror for the victims as well.
  12. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    About as sharp an updated version of the original as is Jennifer Lopez's song of the same name a modern, Latina version of the Beatles classic.
  13. Something's Gotta Give
    Doesn't always sizzle, but its stars do.
  14. Stuck on You
    It's not naughty. It's nice. Naughty is funnier.
  15. Big Fish
    A word of warning. Big Fish is so strange and so literary that audiences seeking conventional fare may get impatient with it. But it always takes effort to catch the big ones. This one is worth it.
  16. The Last Samurai
    May fall short of its great model, "Seven Samurai" (almost all action movies do), but it's miles ahead of most of the gadget-ridden adventure epics around now.
  17. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Most movingly, Monsieur Ibrahim takes a provocative subject -- friendship and love between a Jew and a Muslim -- and makes it seem natural and wondrous.
  18. Honey
    Has the shelf life of a dented milk carton. Pop-culture movies in general age rapidly due to ever-changing slang and fashions.
  19. In America
    Family life rarely is portrayed with such warmth, clarity and vibrancy as in In America.
  20. Bad Santa
    The foulest holiday movie I've ever seen -- and the funniest.
  21. Timeline
    There's something light and insubstantial about this movie. It almost floats away as you watch it.
  22. The Cooler
    The movie boasts one of those rare twist endings that strikes the right emotional chords, and it deserves credit for laying its bets on a sexy, sympathetic Macy. Sometimes long shots pay off.
  23. The Haunted Mansion
    The words "Welcome foolish mortals" open Walt Disney Pictures' The Haunted Mansion, a movie based on Disneyland and Walt Disney World's classic theme park attractions. The foolish mortals, of course, would be those who pay $9 a ticket at the door.
  24. 21 Grams
    Blessed with one of the strongest casts of any American movie this year, this bravura film, with its radical structure, is full of risk and reward.
  25. The Cat in the Hat
    Although a literal movie adaptation of Seuss' 1957 classic "The Cat in the Hat" might have run 20 minutes, is it too much to ask that the filmed material preserve the author's sensibility?
  26. Gothika
    May try to revive the eerie spirit of the Gothic novel, but, unless you're suffering from amnesia yourself, it probably won't surprise or thrill you.
  27. The Barbarian Invasions
    A brilliant entertainment, full of bemused skepticism and reckless, prodigal love -- for these people and their vanishing era and lives.
  28. The Missing
    Good movie westerns these days may be too few and far between, but Ron Howard's The Missing is almost a great one.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Anything But Love
    The film wears its heart--and its nostalgia--on its sleeve, but while it's clearly made by people who love old Hollywood musicals, it never stoops to being just a vehicle for smug genre references.
  30. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    As magnificent as a high-masted 19th-century British warship, as explosive as a Napoleonic-era ocean battle seen above the cannon's mouth... probably the best movie of its kind ever made.
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